How to Achieve CEng and IEng

How to Achieve CEng and IEng
John Lorriman
• Accredited professional development schemes for 25 years in UK,
Hong Kong, Dubai, Czech Republic, Oman, Abu Dhabi and Brunei.
• Looked after IEE Centre in Development in Belarus in early 1990s.
First International Member of Belarussian Academy of Engineering.
• Regular Professional Review interviewer for CEng and IEng.
• Career Manager Volunteer Adviser.
• Run courses on Mentoring, Registration, etc., for IET.
• Initiated and piloted IET Mentoring Scheme in 1999.
• IET Coventry and Warks LN Mentoring Coordinator.
• Chaired two Local Networks/Branches.
• Been on IEE Council twice.
• Chaired first joint IEE/IMechE/IIE CPD Committee.
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John Lorriman
• Authored ‘Japan’s Winning Margins’ with Professor Takashi
Kenjo for OUP. Translated into Chinese.
• Authored ‘Upside Down Management’ for McGraw-Hill.
• Authored ‘CPD – a practical approach’ for IEE Management of
Technology Book Series.
• Edited IEE Management of Technology Book Series.
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What is the IET ?
• The Institution of Engineering and Technology
- Interdisciplinary, Multidisciplinary, Global Knowledge Network
• A world leading Professional Engineering Institution,
• Over 160,000 members in 127 countries
• Offices in Asia Pacific, China, Europe, India and UK
• 100 local networks in 37 Countries
• World class publications and knowledge resources
• A life time of professional development, qualifications and career support
• Licensed to award CEng, IEng, EngTech, ICTTech
Membership: what do I get?
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Publications
Events
Local Networks
Career Support
IET.tv
Online communities
Library
IET connect
Government consultation groups
Member facilities at Savoy Place (Birdcage Walk until July 2015)
And, of course, globally recognised professional qualifications
Membership Structure
Fellow (FIET)
CEng
IEng
Member (MIET)
Technician
Member (TMIET)
Student
Associate
Eng
Tech
ICT
Technician
Why become CEng or IEng?
Professional Registration:
What does it mean to you?
Listed on the Engineering Council Register of Professional
Engineers, giving you:
• Recognition as:
- a professional in your field
- a rounded engineer
• Broader knowledge and understanding
• Improved:
- Self motivation
- Career opportunities
- Marketability
- Salary prospects
Benefits of registration to employers
• competitive advantage in winning new
business
• maintains and improves professional
standards in industry
• credibility with customers and suppliers
• fosters creative and innovative working
environment
• raises quality of working environment
Professional Qualifications
• There are currently four types
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CEng
IEng
Eng Tech
ICT Tech
• Competence based assessment
• Governed by Engineering Council UKSPEC
What is Professional Registration?
• Internationally recognised standards of professional
competence and ethics for Engineers & Technicians
• Developed by The Engineering Council
• Qualifications achieved by proving knowledge, understanding
and competence
• Three levels of professional registration:
– Chartered Engineer (CEng)
– Incorporated Engineer (IEng)
– Engineering Technician (EngTech)
Why Become Professionally Qualified?
• Recognition of your expertise and hard work
• International recognition of your qualifications
• Post-nominal after your name
(CEng/IEng, etc.)
• Credibility within the Industry
• Improved career prospects
• Higher Earnings Potential
• Greater influence within organisation and
industry
• Authorised signatory
• You will be a rounded engineer
What it means for Business
Competitive
advantage
in winning
new
business
Maintaining
&
Improving
Professional
Standards Fostering a
Credibility
creative &
with
innovative
customers &
working
suppliers
environment
What does being registered mean?
“It demonstrates commitment to my job and to my continued
development as an engineer and as a professional”
Sara McGowan, CEng MIMechE
“It brings benefits, not only to you the individual and employer but also to
the wider engineering community. By becoming a registered engineer, you
are helping to build on a long and proud engineering heritage that has
been forged by some of the country’s most eminent engineers”
Keith Winning, IEng MIED
“It is important, as it is a formal external professional recognition to my
profession, and looks good on my CV, and will help me progress with my
career”
Kok-Hau Thierry Wee EngTech AMIET
“One of the many benefits of my professional registration has been the
recognition I’ve received from my colleagues and management”
Paul Cozens IEng MBCS CITP
The Role of the Institutions
• 36 professional institutions are licensed by the
Engineering Council
• Can’t apply to the Engineering Council directly
• Need to be a member of a professional body to apply
• BCS, IET, IMechE, etc. provide:
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Support to candidates
Accreditation
Structured Professional Development Programmes
Professional Review
Interviews
Knowledge providers
Technical Publishers
Providers of events and training
The voice of the Engineering profession
Steps to gaining Professional Registration
Membership
Developing competence
under UK-SPEC
Application
Initial Review
Professional Review
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Already competent
Competence Framework (UK-SPEC)
United Kingdom Specification for Professional Engineering Competence
• Standard for Professional Engineering Competence
• Governed by Engineering Council
• Set criteria for Chartered & Incorporated Engineers and
Engineering Technicians
• UK-SPEC replaced SARTOR 3 (Standards and Routes to
Registration) on 1st March 1999
• Provides a more flexible system for engineers
to demonstrate their professionalism
Competence Framework (UK-SPEC)
Competence
A
Underpinning Knowledge and
Understanding
B
Application to Practice
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Leadership/Management/Supervision
D
Interpersonal Skills
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Commitment to Professional Standards
www.ukspec.org.uk
Competence Framework (UK-SPEC) UK-SPEC
From 1st March 2004
Initial Professional Development
Demonstration of competence and commitment
A Knowledge and Understanding (A1 - A2)
B Application to Practice (B1 - B3)
C Leadership, Management,Supervision (C1 - C4)
D Interpersonal Skills (D1 - D3)
E Professional Conduct (E1 - E4)
(New E5 Ethics Competence being
introduced)
Chartered Engineer (CEng)
• Ability to develop appropriate solutions to engineering
problems
• Use new or existing technologies, through innovation,
creativity and change
• Develop and apply new technologies
• Promote advanced designs and design methods
• Engage in technical and commercial leadership
Incorporated Engineer (IEng)
• Maintain and manage applications of current and developing
technology
• Apply existing and emerging technology in their work
• Undertake engineering design, development, manufacture,
construction and operation
• Engage in technical and commercial management
Engineering Technician (EngTech)
• Focus on performance of tasks
• For professional technicians who have supervisory or technical
responsibility
• Demonstrate a commitment to professional standards
• Contribute to the design, development, manufacture,
commissioning, operation or maintenance of products and
services
• Apply safe systems of work
Education : CEng
• An accredited integrated MEng
Or
Accredited BEng Hons plus either an
appropriate Masters degree or appropriate
Further Learning to M level
• Or Equivalent (individually assessed)
• Others – Please speak with me after talk.
Education : IEng
• Accredited Bachelors Degree in Engineering or
Technology
Or
• Accredited HND or Foundation Degree plus
appropriate Further Learning to degree level.
• Or Equivalent (individually assessed)
Chartered IT Professional (CITP)
• CITP status, has been developed to assure employers and others that holders
add business value through use of technology, have breadth of knowledge
across the whole of IT and competence in their own specialism, and
understand the business they are working in.
• CITP status is already available through BCS for BCS Members
• New licensing agreement between BCS and IET will enable IET to award CITP
status to its own members
• Being licensed to award CITP status will allow IET members to achieve this
professional registration as an added membership benefit
• Starts summer 2013
“I’m delighted to be extending an agreement to IET to award CITP to its members.
Licensing other membership bodies demonstrates our commitment to establishing
open standards for the IT profession and establishing CITP status as the global
standard for IT practitioners. CITP status is incredibly important for the profession
which is today at the very heart of all business and society as a whole, and which is
driving immense change and delivering enormous benefit.”
David Clarke, MBE, Chief Executive of BCS
Competence and UK&U
IEng: accredited Bachelor level degree
EngTech: accredited Diploma level
Competence
Underpinning
Knowledge and
Understanding
CEng: accredited Masters level degree ICTTech: SFIA Level 3 & future
approval/accreditation
If the candidate does not hold the exemplifying qualification,
other evidence of UK&U may be requested
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The Basics
• EngTech is based on Apprenticeship
/ Diploma level learning
• IEng is based on Bachelors level
learning
• CEng is based on Masters level
learning
• Competency assessed qualification
• Typically 3-5 years of competence
development after gaining
accredited qualification
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No exemplifying qualification?
Other evidence of UK&U may be requested:
Formal Further Learning
Work-based Learning
BCS offers an ‘Experiential Route’ to Registration for those without exemplifying
academic qualifications:
• This path enables applicants who do not have exemplifying qualifications to
demonstrate their underpinning knowledge and understanding through
evidence of their substantial work experience – this is gathered through an
‘Experience Statement’ which the applicant submits as part of their application.
• Our assessors will review the applicant’s written submissions and if sufficient
evidence of the core competencies has been provided, the applicant will
progress directly to Professional Review Interview. If the evidence is not
sufficient, the assessor may request further information from the applicant or
recommend that they progress down the Technical Report Route instead.
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Further Learning
Should include:
• Technical broadening
• Non-technical broadening
• Engineering and science deepening
• Achieved by workplace development or further study
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Work-Based Learning: CEng & IEng
• Candidates with substantial experience
• Examples of possible evidence:
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Technical papers
Investigations
Design studies
Feasibility reports
Individual research
Portfolio plus commentary
Outside activities
Procedure and Forms
(UK SPEC)
First complete the RPD form
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Procedure and Forms
(UK Spec)
• UK& U (Education) assessed
• Demonstration of gaining Competence and
Capabilities – Application for Registration
Form, plus further evidence if requested.
• Assessment of Written Evidence
• Professional Review Interview
• Final Review by Registration Panel
Obtaining the Application form
Download the relevant application pack
(www.theiet.org/professionalregistration)
• Read the guidance notes
OR
Log in to Career Manager
(www.theiet.org/career-manager)
• Read the notes!
Sections of application form
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Personal, professional and educational details
Statement of employment history indicating responsibilities
Accountability diagram/statement e.g. organisational chart
Competence Statements
Supporter’s/referee’s details
Review with colleague/ manager / mentor / supporter
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Application guidance
• Two or three best projects/examples of your direct engineering ability
from past 5 years
• "I was responsible for... I conducted, I improved, I applied, I delivered, I
produced, I negotiated….
• Indicate size, complexity, strategic importance etc
• If appropriate, quantify budget, resources, manpower, etc
• i.e. What you needed to learn, problems faced and solved, how this
understanding has benefited the organisation…..
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What to put in competence A - B
Engineering skills and application:
– Focus on technical matters not project or contact
management
– Use engineering language
– Technical papers or patents written or presented
– Quality over quantity
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What to put in competence C - E
Skills to act professionally:
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Focus on management – technical and commercial
Communication at all levels
Safety
Environmental consideration
Commitment
Engineering Skills
Professional Skills
• Focus on technical matters
• Management – technical &
commercial
• Engineering Language
• Communication at all levels
• Technical papers or patents
• Safety
• Quality over quantity
• Environmental
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MONITORED
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
SCHEME
• A quality assured route to Professional Registration 3 or 4 years (+ or -)
• Supported by a Mentor
• Quarterly reports & annual assessments
• An accredited professional development programme used by over 350
companies
• Full IMechE Staff support, via the MPDS help team and Business
Development Managers
• MPDS has a consistently high success rate of 96%
Find yourself a Mentor
• Accredited schemes always provide Mentors
• IET Mentoring Service
• Use BCS Branch and Specialist Group networks
to find suitable mentors
Manage the relationship
Encourage the protégé
Nurture the protégé
Teach the protégé
Offer mutual support
Respond to the protégé’s needs
“Everybody needs a Mentor” Clutterbuck D
The IET Mentoring Service
• Aims to maximise informality and minimise
formality.
• Recognises Mentors and Mentees as
professionals.
• Provides guidelines but no contract.
• With few forms & procedures.
• Is voluntary.
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IET Advantage
IET Advantage - for the
career you really want
IET Advantage is a three step membership programme
which offers exceptional value to early career engineers
who are determined to achieve more.
Professional Home for Life ® For Engineers And Technicians
IET Advantage
University
STUDENT £20 PER
YEAR
STUDENT
Graduation
New
Career
Job
Progress
GRADUATE
ADVANTAGE
£20
CAREER
ADVANTAGE
£60 PER YEAR
PROFESSIONAL
ADVANTAGE
£90 PER YEAR
GRADUATE
ADVANTAGE
CAREER
ADVANTAGE
PROFESSIONAL
ADVANTAGE
1 YEAR
3 YEARS
2 YEARS
Professional Home for Life for
Engineers and Technicians
IET Advantage
Finding a job.
Making the
right choices.
Getting job.
Settling into
work.
Groundwork for
Professional
Registration
Professional Advantage
Progress
Completing
final year.
Career Advantage
Planning
Transition
Graduate Advantage
Learning.
Demonstrating
skills.
Involvement.
Progress
towards
Professional
Registration.
Professional Home for Life ® For Engineers And Technicians
IET Advantage
- Preparing CV
- Career Guide
- Mentoring
- MIET
- PR Goals
- Life skills
- Career Manager
- Events
Professional Advantage
Progress
IET Support:
Career Advantage
Planning
Transition
Graduate Advantage
- PR Goals
- Networking
- Volunteering
- Events
- Publishing
- Networks
- Knowledge
Professional Home for Life ® For Engineers And Technicians
Graduate Advantage – who’s it for?
• Existing student members in their final year of
studying on engineering or technology degrees e.g.
BEng, MEng, MSc, PhD
• Engineering and technology graduates in their 1st
year from completing their full-time course.
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Career Pathways and CPD Support
Wherever you are in your career, BCS provides a number of resources to help you plan your professional
development, including our Career Framework for IT Professionals with its associated underlying career path
definitions, and a wealth of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) opportunities.
The CPD Portal: offers guidance and answers to frequently asked questions, along with examples of how to set career goals and record
your CPD www.bcs.org/cpd and example CPD Records
Resources to help you maintain your CPD: provides a model CPD Activity Record template and we have plans to offer an online
recording tool in the coming weeks.
Resources to help you plan your career aspirations: Career Framework for IT Professionals, www.bcs.org/careerpath , Career Path
Definitions, Browse SFIAplus and BCSRecruit jobs website
A wide range of CPD activities: We publish a range of books, publications, Forrester Reports, research materials and iTunes U content.
We offer professional certifications and accredited training courses. We facilitate networking and sharing of best practise through our
Branches, International Sections and wide range of Specialist Groups www.bcs.org/groups
How Do You Gain A
Competence?
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Do it under supervision
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To point where you are Trusted on your own
Retrospective Compiling of Evidence
• Two ideas for gathering your thoughts!
Mind Map
Created by Sam Wane,
Staffordshire University
Analyse Career
• Make a list of each job / post held.
• In each post what did you achieve?
What did you learn? In terms of Engineering, Project
Management, Admin, Personnel Management,
Training, Level of Responsibility.
Impact of getting it wrong!
• Now deduce how/where you gained the various
competencies.
Alkis Voliotis, FirstCo
Initial Professional Development:
Gather your Evidence
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B
Produce record
Undertake activity
Identify
competence
C
D
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Self assess
Note in records
Building a Portfolio of Evidence
Competence Record - example
IET Competence Standard B: “Application to Practice”
Chartered Engineers must be competent, by virtue of their initial formation and throughout their working life, to apply appropriate theoretical
and practical methods to the analysis and solution of engineering problems.
Other IET
Evidence
Description of Task
B1*
B2
B3
Assessor
competence
Identify
Conduct
Implement
Ref.
Approval/
standards
potential
appropriate
design
Date
this evidence
projects &
research &
solutions, and
3/1
Attachment to Marketing Dept – work
on new product Z456
4/1
Prototype dept – project manage
product T345
4/2
Attachment to design & development 1
4/4
Attachment to manufacturing
engineering 1
6/1
Design Dept New Starter
configuration
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Design Dept Product CDE design
project team
opportunities
undertake
design &
development
of engineering
solutions
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effectiveness
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D2, D3,
E1, E2
Level Descriptors: 1 = Aware, 2 = Familiar, 3 = Skilled, 4 = Expert
My approach to registration
Evidence summary records
Steve Barty
My approach to registration
Competencies
• Allows me to chart my
progress
• Shows me where the
gaps in my training are
Matt Collinson
COMPETENCE SUMMARY
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COMPETENCE SUMMARY EXAMPLE
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Competence Assessment:
Present your Evidence
Yes
Sign Off
No
What is still
needed?
Does it
meet a
Competence?
Undertake activity
Career Manager
Competence Skill Level
Update your skill levels as
your competence develops
Regularly update your
evidence to reflect this
Download a copy of your
assessment for review with
your line manager/mentor
UK SPEC
Maintaining Competence
Candidates applying for registration as a Chartered Engineer or
Incorporated Engineer will require to show evidence that they
have a plan to continue to maintain their competence.
It is important that candidates seeking Registration understand
that this will entail obligations and an on-going commitment.
“UK Standards for Professional Engineering Competence” ECUK
Development Action Plan
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Use company documentation where possible
Review most recent period with line manager
Plan development for next period
Should cover task-related and developmentrelated activities
• Should identify competences covered
Not yet ready to apply?
IMechE Career Developer, IET Career Manager or BCS CPD Portal
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Online career development tool
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Capture lifelong learning throughout career
– Logs all your professional development
– Supports your application for registration
– Creates an online CV
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Professional Review PRI
• All candidates required to attend an interview to demonstrate their
level of competence (CEng/IEng only)
• IET requires a 10-15 minute presentation
• Discussion based on information provided on application form
• Interviews may take place online, regionally or
in company
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Most Importantly…
Do it for yourself:
“Get registered for your own sense of achievement. The help it
gives your career is a bonus, and if your employer supports you
through the process that is another bonus, but most of all, do it
because you want to enjoy the prestige of reaching the forefront
of your industry as a professional”
Liam Nagle CEng MIED
Tips For Completing Your Form
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Follow the Guidance notes
Typed or word-processed (min 9 point font)
Well presented, clear and legible
Keep within Format - don’t add too many pages maybe one for experience
Remember
• Use your form to make a good first impression
• Your form will also be the basis of your Professional
Review Interview
• Have your form checked by a Professional
Registration Advisor
Supporters
• Ideally Registered Engineers in category applied for and
Members of IET or another Professional Technical Organisations,
who have known you professionally for at least two years, and
who work at a senior level to you.
• will need to sign competence statements if these are requested.
• Where a Registered Engineer not available, your line manager
may act as Supporter.
Minimum of Two, preferably Three
• Inquiry Form
• Page 2
Inquiry Form
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Professional Review Interview: What
should you expect?
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Mandatory for IEng and CEng
15 minute presentation
Lasts around 75 minutes
Conducted by 2 interviewers
Is based on your application form
Remember, the interview is:
• A demonstration of competence
• Testing verbal communication
• NOT a technical examination
The Interview
• A demonstration of UK-SPEC competences through
discussion of your Relevant Career Experiences
• A 15 minute presentation of a project of your choice
focusing on UK-SPEC Competences A and B
• Your presentation contributes to assessment of
Competence D
• Not a technical interview
The Interview
• Read through your application prior to the interview
• Advise the Interview Convener of your choice of
presentation format
• Be prepared to discuss in the first person, what you
have achieved, been responsible for, developed, etc.
• Following your interview the Interviewers complete a
report in which they make an assessment of your
competence against 16 UK-SPEC criteria
Prior to Application
Self Assessment
against UK-Spec
Write
Application
Development
Action Plan
References
Review with PRA
Submit
The Application Form
The Application Form (cont)
Personal & contact
details
Preferred interview location
PRA Details
Employment details
Area of interest in Engineering
Your membership number
The Application Form (cont)
Education (Higher only – don’t
clutter with school)
Courses & Training (resist listing 1day or
less.. Think 1 week+.. ie significant
training)
Professional Papers – not just about
general publications: think significant
reports or studies. Patents.
Accountability – if changed
company/position inside a year use
another sheet and put your previous role
as well
The Application Form (cont)
Organogram – the bad
You
The Application Form (cont)
Organogram – the Good
Proposer
Xx FIET
Xx CEng
Xx CEng
ME
Xx IEng
Me
Supporter
Remember - it’s about a PICTURE !!
The Application Form (cont)
The Main Meat !
Think size: typically 2-3 pages. 1 page is too
short and usually 2 pages not quite detailed
enough.
Where a strong prima face case does not exist,
pre-emption is a good strategy: use as many
pages as needed to be very detailed
(I have seen as many as 179, but typically 5-8)
Competence Section
UK-SPEC: Thresholds used by
Interviewers
THRESHOLD 1 - Below a satisfactory level. Little
or no evidence of Competence
THRESHOLD 2 - Some identified shortfall
warranting attention
THRESHOLD 3 - Fully Acceptable
THRESHOLD 4 - Exceptionally strong in all areas
Interview
Report Form
Page 1
Interview
Report Form
Page 2
What Happens Next?
Registration Process: IEng and CEng
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
The 4 Stage Process Model: CEng & IEng
Understanding the Process
Stage 0/1
Staff check
application
completeness
& review for
additional
evidence
Either refer
to Stage 2 for review of
Evidence Or Stage 3
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
Peer
Review
of
written
application
& additional
evidence
Peer
PRI –
face-to-face
interview
by panel
Peer
Decision by
Registrar
on outcome
of entire
process
If all OK,
move to
Stage 3
If all OK,
move to
Stage 4
If OK,
Register Declines
Appeal
Prima Face application
ASSESSMENTS PANELS
A - Military, MoD & Civil Service
B - Computing, Software & ICT
C - Electronics & Semiconductors
D - Telecomms, Broadcasting & Railway Signalling
E - Academia
F - Electricity Supply & Railway Traction
G - Building Services, Consultancy & Process Control
H - Manufacturing & Production
Professional Registration Adviser
Brunei Darussalam
www.theiet.org/advice
Mr Sam Lim
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Knowledge
Resources
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Publications
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Membership of your Local Network
 Seminars
 Technical visits
 Networking
 Social interaction
 Support
 Lectures
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Classes of Membership
Fellow
Member
Associate
Affiliate
CEng / IEng / EngTech FIMechE
CEng / IEng / EngTech MIMechE
AMIMechE
• Student/apprentice
• Technician Member TMIET
• Member MIET
• Fellow FIET
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Levels of Membership
Useful Weblinks
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www.theiet.org/membership
www.imeche.org
www.pd-how2.org
www.engc.org.uk
www.bcs.org/ceng and www.bcs.org/ieng
www.icheme.org
www.ice.org.uk
Local Registration Advice
• IET Professional Registration Advisers
www.theiet.org/advice
• IMechE Regional Managers
• www.bcs.org.uk or BCS Branch network
Any Questions?
[email protected]
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